'England, Netherlands, the Heavens and the Arts
Of ... Sydney hath made ... parts;
... for who could suppose,
That one heape of stones could Sydney enclose.'
[1047]Sir Henry Sydney, knight of _m._ Mary, daughter of John Dudley,
the Garter, and President of | duke of Northumberland, sister
Wales. | to Ambrose, earle of Warwick.
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1. Sir Philip _m._ ... daughter 2. Robert, 3. Thomas. Mary. \---/
Sydney | and ... of viscount two sisters,
| secretary Lisle, married to
| Walsingham: 1616. 2 Mansells of
| obiit 22 Sept. Glamorganshire,
| 1586. brothers.
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Elizabeth, daughter _m._ Roger Manners, earl
and heir | of Rutland.
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sine prole.
[1048]_Key of Pembroke's Arcadia[BZ]._
Sir,
All the good bodies thanke you for your remembrance, which I ought to
have told you sooner if a paine in my head had not hinderd me.
I wishe I could give you the key you desire, but all I know of it is
not worth anything; though conversant amongst his relations, could
learne noe more then Pamela's being my lady Northumberland[1049],
Philo[clea] my lady Rich[1050], two sisters, the last beloved by him,
upon whose account he made his _Astrophell and Stella_; Miso, lady
Cox, Mopse, lady Lucy, persons altogether unknowne now; Musid[orus] and
Pericles, the two ladies' husbands. Lord Ri[ch] being then his friend,
he perswaded her mother to the match, though he repented afterwards:
she then very young and secretly in love with him but he no consern for
her. Her beauty augmenting, he sayes in his _Astrophel and Stella_,
he didnt think 'the morn would have proved soe faire a daye.' Their
mother[1051] was beautifull and gallant (whether he meant Ginesia by
her or noe, I know not); but their father died, they being young. She
remaried to Dudley, Leycester and Northumberland, and afterwards to
her gentleman of the horse, Sir Cristopher Blunt, which was beheaded
with lord Essex. It was thought he meant himself by Amphi[alus] and
his lady, Sir Francis Walsingham's daughter and heire, the queen of
Corinth. If he did make his owne character high, they sayd Philisides
was himself to, but it was all a guesse. He made it young, and diyng
desired his folies might be burnt.
Some others I have heard guessed at, but have forgot. Therfore canot
satisfie the lady, which I would for your sake.
I give you thankes but shall not want my grandmother's epitaph (which
was for a relation of ours heere, who desird it), having found it of
your giving.